Next month, Smithsonian Folkways are to release “Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds”. The 2CD/DVD set honours the life and legacy of Mike Seeger recorded months before his death in 2009.
Featuring new releases from Hoth Bothers, 3hattrio, Kacy & Clayton, Joan Shelley, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee, Karine Polwart and Ralph McTell.
In November 2019, Jon Boden is taking to the road for a tour with the 6 piece Remnant Kings band. This tour also includes a very special show at the Union Chapel in London with the full 11 piece band. Watch them performing Bee Sting live.
Warner Bros. Pictures have announced they are to release a cinematic film version of Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, ‘Western Stars’, worldwide, on the big screen.
Sarah Jane Scouten releases a powerful new single with “Ballad of a Southern Midwife” a song about the overlap of religious intolerance and sexual oppression and a woman’s fight to live on her own terms, regardless of the consequences.
Red River Dialect release their fifth album ‘Abundance Welcoming Ghosts’ next month which was recorded in rural Southwest Wales. Listen to their lead single ‘Snowdon’ featuring Joan Shelly.
Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook album has reached number 34 in the UK Album Charts, her first-ever Top 40 Album. It also reached an incredible No 2 in the Scottish Album Charts. Don’t miss her Songbook tour.
Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Battlefield Dance Floor’ Show of Hands release new single “Lost”, inspired by the story of doomed sailor Donald Crowhurst who died while competing in the 1968 Golden Globe Race.
Danny Neill chats to Richard Thompson backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival where he shares his thoughts about hit songs, his 70th Birthday bash, recalls oversleeping in the seventies for his festival slot and the funniest far-fetched Dylan tale we’ve heard yet.
Taken from a documentary highlighting the special things that are happening in Irish folk and traditional music right now, watch Saileog and Muireann Ní Cheannabháin performing a beautiful Sean Nós song on Maghermore Beach in Co. Wicklow.
Despite the album title, The Rails show no signs of going quietly into that dark night as they further the rockier, more electric guitar feel of their last release while also displaying the Thompson musical DNA and family folk influences.
Although well known as a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, John Cohen is also an exceptional photographer. Next month sees the publication of a new work – Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass.
